AMD is positioning embedded computing as a next growth engine, aiming to carry the x86 CPU competitiveness it has built in ...

Intel still leads with 67.4% of the overall x86 market, but AMD gained nearly six percentage points in a year while Intel's ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Intel and AMD have partnered to introduce new improvements to the x86 instruction set, with the two competing companies coming together in a joint ...

AMD's server volumes grew strongly, according to Mercury, with the firm taking a third of the server CPU market share (33.2 ...

Curiously, the Intel 8086 was conceived as a stopgap while the more technologically ambitious 32-bit iAPX 432 struggled with ...

Arm data center competition reached a turning point at Computex 2026 as Arm confirmed 50% of hyperscaler CPU compute, AMD ...

While Intel and Advanced Micro Devices battle for the top two spots in the x86 microprocessor market, the third player, Via Technologies, saw a slip in its already-marginal market share, but it isn’t ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The microprocessor industry is in a consolidation phase and should rally around extending the x86 architecture to new market spaces, especially for network and handheld systems, ...

June 8, 1978, marked the birth of the x86 architecture with the arrival of the 16-bit Intel 8086 CPU.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The rumors have once again surfaced that Nvidia Corp. may enter the x86-based microprocessor market. For some time, there have been reports that Nvidia would enter the x86-based ...

Try to investigate the differences between the x86 and ARM processor families (or x86 and the Apple M1), and you'll see the acronyms CISC and RISC. It's a common way to frame the discussion, but not a ...

The Nintendo Switch can run Steam, and that means a lot for the future of Arm gaming.